Pad of paper sheets for hanging on a wall



April 1937- N. T. BEARDSLEY PAD OF PAPER SHEETS FOR HANGI NG ON A WALL Filed Nov. 8, 1935 Patented Apr. 20, 1937 UNITED STATES PAD OF PAPER SHEETS FOR HANGING ON A WALL Norman T. Beardsley, Portland, Maine, assignor to Brown Company, Berlin,

of Maine Application November 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a pad of paper sheets and more particularly to a pad designed to be hung on a wall and from which the individual sheets may be successfully removed, as desired. While not restricted thereto, the pad of the present invention may contain sheets of paper toweling and hence be of utility in a kitchen, toilet, or other place where toweling is desirable or necessary.

The pad of the present invention is characterized by its simplicity and low cost of manufacture; its adaptability for ready fastening to or hanging on a wall with little danger of the pad being ripped loose from its fastener; the 15 accessibility of its sheets and the ease with which they can be removed successively from the pad; and the permanently exposed surface presented thereby on which the seller of the pad may imprint advertising matter.

The pad of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 shows in perspective a pad embodying the present invention.

Figure 2 is a vertical section through the upper portion of the pad along the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 represents a flat blank of paperboard containing lines of fold and a struck-out piece, such blank being developed into a folder for the 30 upper end portion of the pad and its struck-out piece being formed up into a tab by which the pad may be readily hung on a wall.

Figures 4 and 5 are sections on the line 4-4 of Figure 3 and illustrate various stages of form- 35 ing up the struck-out folder piece into the hanging tab.

The pad proper may consist of a pile of paper sheets I0, for instance, sheets of paper toweling. The sheets may be suitably bound together at their upper edges, as by a staple II passing substantially centrally therethrough near their upper edge portions. Encompassing the upper end portion of the pad is a paperboard folder I2 which is preferably quite stiff and strong as com- 5 pared to the individual paper sheets. The folder may be readily produced from a rectangular blank scored on lines I4 and I5 running parallel to the side edges of the blank and containing a struckout relatively narrow piece I6 extending sub- ;5 stantially centrally from the line of score I4 somewhat beyond the line of score I5, as illustrated in Figure 3.

The lines of score I4 and I define an intermediate fold H which overlies the upper edges :55 of the pad or pad sheets. The fold I8 in back of the line I4 is bent downwardly to overly the N. H., a corporation 8, 1935, Serial No. 48,831

upper back end portion of the pad; and it may be secured to the pad as by clinching the ends of the staple II over its back face, as appears in Figure 2. The fold I9 in front of the line I5 may be bent downwardly to overly the upper front end portion of the pad and, being freely bendable upwardly at the line I5, permits the sheets I0 to be torn substantially without restraint and in substantially intact condition from the pad. It is desirable that the front fold or flap I9 be of greater width than the back fold I8 so as to present ample surface on which advertising matter may be imprinted, as illustrated in Figure l, but such width is preferably distinctly less than one-half the length of the pad so as not to interfere appreciably with the tearing of sheets from the pad.

The piece I6 struck out from the folder blank may be initially bent upwardly to the dotted line position shown in Figure 4, whereupon its portion Ilia beyond the line of score I5 may be bent downwardly, as shown in Figure 5, to form a tab of double paperboard thickness capable of serving as the means by which the pad may be hung on a wall. The two layers or thicknesses of paperboard constituting the hanging tab may be suitably united, as by an adhesive, and an opening 20 for a wall fastener punched therethrough, but it is preferable to unite the layers and at the same time to reinforce them against tearing about the opening by a metal eyelet 2| clinched in position therein about the opening as the latter is being punched. A wall fastener, such as a nail, may be passed through the eyelet while being driven into a wall and the pad safely hung by the tab, since there is little danger of the fastener ripping through the tab.

I claim:-

The combination with a pad of paper sheets bound together at their upper edges of a onepiece paperboard folder at the upper end portion of said pad, said folder including an intermediate fold overlying the upper edges of said pad and defined by a back line of fold at the back upper edge of said pad and a front line of fold at the front upper edge of said pad, a back fold overlying the upper back end portion of said pad and secured to said pad, and a front fold freely bendable upwardly at said front line of fold and overlying only the upper front end portion of said pad, said folder including a tab struck out substantially centrally from said intermediate fold and bent upwardly at said back line of fold to constitute means by which said pad may be hung on a wall.

NORMAN T. BEARDSLEY. 

